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ELEMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY.
ANCIENT AND MODERN.

CUMMINGS, HILLIARD, & Co. have published a new and much improved edition of this work The Geography is printed in a handsome style, and a new map of the Eastern and Middle States is added to the Atlas.

Extracts from Reviews, &c.

"Mr. Worcester's Geography appears to us a most excellent manual. It is concise, well arranged, free from redundancies and repetitions, and contains exactly what it should, a brief outline of the natural and political characteristics of each country. The tabular views are of great value." North American Review.

"We consider the work, in its present state, as the best compend of Geography for the use of schools, which has appeared in our country.' Monthly Literary Journal. "From a careful examination of thy Geography, and a comparison of the work with other productions of like character, I am led to the opinion that it is the most valuable system of elementary geography published in our country." Roberts Vaux, Esq. "I have no hesitation in expressing it as my opinion, that it contains more valuable matte and better arranged, than any similar work of its size I have ever met with."

Professor Adams. "I cannot hesitate to pronounce it, on the whole, the best compend of geography for the use of academies, that I have ever seen." Rev. Dr. S. Miller. "Of all the elementary treatises on the subject which have been published, I have seen none with which I am on the whole so well pleased, and which I can so cheerfully recommend to the publick." President Tyler.

SKETCHES OF THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS.

COMPRISING

A description of the Grand Features of Nature; the Principal Mountains, Rivers, Cataracts, and other Interesting Objects and Natural Curiosities; also of the Chief Cities and Remarkable Edifices and Ruins; together with a View of the Manners and Customs of different Nations: Illustrated by One Hundred Engravings.

Extracts from Reviews, &c..

"We have attentively perused these Sketches,' and have no hesitation in saying that we know of no similar work, in which instruction and amusement are so much combined. The accuracy of the statements, the brevity and clearness of the descriptions, the apposite and often beautiful quotations from books of travels and from other works, continually excite and gratify the curiosity of the reader." Christian Spectator.

"We consider the Sketches' well suited to give a large fund of entertainment and instruction to the youthful mind." North American Review. "We know of no book which would be more suitable to be read by scholars in our higher schools, and which would excite more interest in the family circle." R. I. American. "These volumes are extremely entertaining, and may be recommended to the perusal of those even, who conceive themselves to be past the necessity of elementary instruction." Christian Examiner. "The Sketches,' &c. form a most valuable companion to the Elements of Geography, admirably calculated to interest the attention, and impart useful knowledge to our youth." Roberts Vaux, Esq. *The work is, in my opinion, ably executed, and well fitted to be both popular and useful," Rev. Dr. S. Miller

ever seen.

UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER.

A NEW AND GREATLY IMPROVED EDITION.

Extracts from Reviews, &c.

"The authorities which Mr. Worcester specifies, are certainly those most worthy of reliance. We have ourselves used his Gazetteer for some time past, and we continue to regard it as by far the most accurate, copious, and generally serviceable work of the kind, which we have The second edition comprises nearly two thousand pages, printed in the neatest manner, on handsome paper." National Gazette. "In its present form, it [the Universal Gazetteer] is, we believe, the most comprehensive geographical dictionary that can be called a manual, and we think it would be difficelt to name a work in two volumes, in which more information is contained. We are disposed to regard it as freer from defects than any other work of the kind before the publick."

"The typographical execution is unusually neat and sightly, and the whole work forms a repository of geographical and statistical information, greater, we apprehend, than is elsewhere condensed into the same compass.' North American Review.

PRONOUNCING SPELLING BOOK, by J. A. Cummings. Stereotype edition, just pl lished, containing every word of common use in our language, difficult either to spell or pro

nounce.

The pronunciation is strictly conformed to that of Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and is so exactly and peculiarly denoted that no one, who knows the powers of the letters, cau mistake the true pronunciation.

The demand for this Spelling Book has been very great, and is steadily increasing as a know!edge of it is diffused. It is recommended in the strongest terms by those who have used it, and is rapidly getting into general use; particularly in the New England states. In truth, so far as uniformity of pronunciation through our country is desirable, it would seem, that a work on such a plan cannot fail to receive patronage.

Extracts from the Preface.

That this work may be a perfect guide to pronunciation, we have adopted a method, by which the precise sound of every syllable is as perfectly conveyed, as it would be by Walker's method of spelling the word wrong in order to pronounce it right, which would be to fill one half of the book, at least, with matter entirely useless, except for pronunciation only, and with what would be worse than useless, as it respects spelling, since, in proportion as children are accustomed to attend to false spelling for the sake of correct pronunciation, they will be liable to require an incorrect mode of spelling. The method we have adopted consists in placing over such letters as lose their sounds, those letters, with their appropriate long, short, and other characters, whose sounds they receive. This affords both instructers and children a perfect guide to the exact pronunciation of every word, without the necessity of constant reference to à dictionary in doubtful cases, which, in the actual business of instruction, to say the least, is extremely inconvenient. We cannot but feel confident in believing, that instructers will find great convenience in the use of a book upon this plan, adapted to Walker, even if they should not wish implicitly to conform to his pronunciation.

To render this work as complete a Pronouncing Spelling Book as possible, it is made to contain all the common words in our language, that are difficult either to spell or pronounce, vulgar and indecent terms excepted, which too often disgrace our elementary books of education. Some uncommon or technical terms of difficult pronunciation have also been admitted. A few words may be found repeated once or twice. This has been done intentionally, although the reason of it may not be obvious.

The reading lessons in the body of the work, are almost wholly selected from the Scriptures. They give a concise view of the being and attributes of God and the condition and character of man, and in such a manner, as, we trust, will not be altogether uninteresting to children. These lessons may be found convenient and useful as exercises to be committed to memory on the Sabbath-day.

What follows the Fables is designed principally for study. The rules for spelling, if well understood and committed to memory, will prove a valuable acquisition.

It ought not to be expected, that a book of this kind should embrace the whole circle of arts and sciences, as most modern elementary books affect to do. We thought it far preferable to do justice to a few subjects, than to attempt too much, and accomplish nothing.

CUMMINGS' FIRST LESSONS

In Geography and Astronomy, with seven plain Maps, and a View of the Solar System, for the use of young children, by J. A. Cummings. Fourth edition, stereotyped. Price 25 cents single, $2,25 per dozen. This is the very best book of the kind before the publick.

Extracts from the Preface.

Although the subject of Geography has of late years been justly considered an essential branch of a good education, it is generally thought to be above the capacities of young children, and fit only for the study of higher classes. But it is fully ascertained, that with the use of maps, it is one of the most suitable exercises for children of any age, after they can read and spell with tolerable ease and correctness. To this, however, many parents are slow to yield assent, and are unwilling that their children should early commence this study, from a reluctance to incur the expense of suitable books and maps merely to try an experiment; the success of which they very much doubt. To remove this objection, and to convince both parents and teachers, that this study is, perhaps of all others, the most suitable for children, even of six or eight years of age, is the object of the following book.

To render these Lessons as easy as possible, they are accompanied by maps, which, thougi. not elegant, are plain and intelligible. Had the maps been neatly engraved on copper, the ex pense would have frustrated the design of the work. The book and maps are so constructer and arranged, that they almost precisely correspond, so that the names in the one will readily be found on the other.

The Lessons on Astronomy, concise and general as they are, will, we trust, be acceptable We are fully sensible, that some of the illustrations may be found not altogether intelligible to young minds, but perhaps some parents and teachers may be pleased to amuse themselves and their child en by exhibiting the motions of the earth, the moon, and other planets; and thus by explaining some of their phenomena, they may perhaps excite a curiosity in early life which may lead to future eminence

By using the best words in our language in all books of study, the means are furnished for one of the most valuable exercises that can be given to young persons, which is, that of mark with a pen or pencil, and looking out in a dictionary every word, the signification of whiel not perfectly understand.

HAVE just published-THE GREEK GRAMMAR, principally abridged from that of Buttmann, for the use of Schools. By George Bancroft.

Extract from the Preface.

This abridgment is designed to contain only the accidence and first principles of the language. -All matter that is not of immediate importance and utility has been rejected, and it has uniformly been endeavoured to unite simplicity in the arrrangement with clearness and conciseness in the expressions. In preparing the work the best school grammars of the Germans and the English have been carefully consulted on every point, and the judgment of the Editor in what is retained and what is omitted has been directed by a comparison of the best manuals. Particular assistance in these respects has been derived from the smaller grammar of Thiersol. The chapter on adjectives, the account of the contracted verbs, and the remarks on the Homerick dialect, are entirely, or partly, from him. Still there is nothing which is not either contained or implied in the grammar of Buttmann, from which this professes to be taken.

The practical instructer has here in a small compass all that is essential to be taught in preparing a pupil for any of our colleges. The attention of the youngest can be directed without difficulty to those things which should sink deeply into the memory.

It should be added, that this abridgment was undertaken at the request of the translator of Buttmann's grammar, and that the manner in which it is executed is in conformity to his views and counsel.

CUMMINGS, HILLIARD, & CO. have for sale, ELEMENTS OF ASTRONOMY, Illustrated with Plates, for the Use of Schools and Academies, with Questions. By JOHN H. WILKINS, A. M. 2d Edition. The design of this work is to exhibit the leading facts and to Illustrate the leading principles of Astronomy in a manner interesting and useful to those scholars who do not intend to pursue the subject to great extent. It may be studied without a knowledge of the higher branches of mathematicks; and contains familiar illustrations of the most striking phenomena of nature.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

Mr. Wilkins's Elementary work on Astronomy appears to us to be made upon an excellent plan, in which he adopts the most recent and approved distribution of the subject. The several parts are arranged in a simple and clear method, and the leading facts and principles of the science judiciously selected and concisely stated. It contains much matter within a narrow compass, embracing such recent discoveries and results, as properly come within the author's plan. It is well adapted to the purposes of instruction, and will, we have no doubt, be found to be very convenient and useful by those teachers, who may put it into the hands of pupils of an age and previous attainments to qualify them for this study.

ELISHA CLAP, WILLARD PHILLIPS. Germantown, 5th June, 1823.

Wilkins's Elements of Astronomy, by presenting in a concise, but perspicuous and familiar manner, the descriptive and physical branches of the science, and rejecting what is merely mechanical, exhibits to the student all that is most valuable and interesting to the youthful mind in this sublime department of human knowledge. WALTER R. JOHNSON, Principal of the Academy, Germantown.

Having examined the work above described, I unite in opinion with Walter R. Johnson confcerning its merits. ROBERTS VAUX. Philadelphia, 6th Mo. 11, 1823.

DAVIS' JUSTICE.

CUMMINGS, HILLIARD, & Co. have recently published-A Practical Treatise upon the Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace, in Criminal Prosecutions; by Daniel Davis, Solicitor General of Massachusetts.

The object of this Work is to furnish gentlemen in the commission of the peace, with a practical and plain guide in that part of their duty which relates to publick prosecutions, at so low a rate, as that they may be induced to incur the expense of obtaining its assistance. Some of the remarks and directions in the first part, and some of the forms in the second part of the work, are original. For these, no authority is claimed beyond what the reasons on which they are founded may sanction; but for the residue, the confidence of both the Magistrate and the Advocate is respectfully anticipated; for they may be assured, that, with the exception of that portion of the work which is original, the matter contained in it is taken from the most approved authorities, and generally given in the words of the authors from whom it is selected.

Extract from the Review.

The design of this work is excellent, and its execution no way inferiour to the design. The principal object of the author is to furnish a complete guide to justices of the peace in criminal prosecutions. It contains in the first part, ample directions in these proceedings in every stage of the process.

We think it our duty to remark, that the price of the book is one quarter less than the ordinary price of law books containing the same amount of matter, and we believe the proportion which the superfluous matter bears to that which is useful, quite as small, to say no more, as in most law books of this size.

A COLLECTION of Plants of Boston and Vicinity, with their Generick and Specifick Charac ters, principal Synonyms, Descriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering; and Occasional Remarks. By Jacob Bigelow, M. D. Second Edition, greatly Enlarged. To which is added, A Glossary of the Botanical Terms used in the Work.

Extract from the Review.

"The appearance of this enlarged edition of Dr. Bigelow's Plants of Boston, will be hailed with much pleasure by all the lovers of Botany in New England. His happy talent at description it not surpassed, as far as our knowledge has extended, by any writer on American plants. With his description before you, it is scarcely possible to be at a loss, whether the plant in your hand, is, or is not, the one to which he refers. He sees every peculiarity, and so describes it, that one must be but ill acquainted with the language of the science, if he can find something else in another plant, and mistake it for that of which he is reading.

"We might say something too of the handsome style in which this book is published, but we recollect that the publishers in this city have of late years done themselves so much credit in this respect, that the execution of this work, excellent as it is, can present no particular claim to our notice on that account."

SMELLIE'S PHILOSOPHY.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY. By William Smellie, member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies, Edinburgh. With an Introduction and various Additions and Alterations, intended to adapt it to the present state of knowledge. By JOHN WARE, M. D., Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1 vol. 8vo. $2,25.

Extract from the Review.

"We think the rudiments of Natural History and Physiology might be advantageously introduced in the course of the common school education of children. These studies might serve agreeably to diversify the severer ones of arithmetick and grammar, while they answered the additional end of directing to useful purposes the amusements of hours of relaxation. We would introduce the subject of this article to the notice of the publick, as an elementary work extremely well adapted to this purpose; in which the original one of Smellie has been much improved by the numerous additions and alterations of the American editor. Among these the most important are the introductory chapters, which occupy something more than a quarter of the whole volume."

VALPY'S GREEK GRAMMAR.

THE ELEMENTS OF GREEK GRAMMAR, with Notes. By R. VALPY, D. D. F. A. S. Fourth American edition.

Notice of the Publishers of the First American edition.

"From the general dissatisfaction, which exists respecting Greek Grammars now in use in this country, and from the repeated solicitations of many of our most respectable instructers, we are induced to publish this Grammar, which has been received with much approbation, and used with great success in England. In this edition some of the deficiencies mentioned in the preceding preface are supplied, and several examples of declension of nouns, a paradigm of contract verbs, a few rules in syntax, a synopsis of parsing, &c. have been added. It is presumed, this Grammar will fully obviate the difficulties, which have so long been a subject of complaint among teachers.

"This fourth American, is from the fifth London edition, and comprises the valuable Notes recently added by Dr. Valpy."

VALPY'S DELECTUS.

DELECTUS SENTENTIARUM GRÆCARUM, ad usum tironam accommodatus ; cum notulis et Lexico. Price 62 cents.

Advertisement.

Mr. Priest, of Scarning, published some years ago, a work under the title of a Greek Delectus. The selection of passages from the Greek writers, and the grammatical and philological notes which followed them, were highly creditable to the diligence and learning of the author. The present little volume would have presented only a new edition of the work, of which the author parted with the copy-right, had it not been found, on experience, too difficult for initiation. This may therefore be considered as a new book, "intended," to use the words of the original author, "not for a display of knowledge, but to render the introduction to the Greek language as easy as possible, and to assist beginners only."

The utility of this Delectus, as an introduction to the study of the Greek language, is act knowledged by all who have used it.

LOCKE'S BOTANY.

OUTLINES OF BOTANY, taken chiefly from Smith's Introduction; containing an explanation of botanical terms, and an illustration of the system of Linnæus, also some account of natural orders, and the anatomy and physiology of vegetables. Illustrated by engravings. For the use of Schools and Students. By JOHN LOCKE, M. D. Lecturer on Botany, Price $1,28.

The object of the present treatise has not been to bring forward any thing new in elementary botany, or to alter what has been before established; but merely to collect and arrange the most important" outlines" of the subject in a concise form, and illustrate them by examples of native plants, affording a volume of a moderate price for the use of schools and students.

THE GREEK READER,

By FREDERICK JACOBS, Professor of the Gymnasium at Gotha, and Editor of the Anthologia. From the Seventh German Edition, adapted to the Translation of Buttmann's Greek Grammar. One volume, octavo.

Extract from the Preface.

It was one of the objects of the Editor to prepare a work for our schools, better adapted to them, than those now in use. It has been objected with justice to the Collectanea Græca Minora, that it contains too little; and that while, even in its easiest parts, it is not adapted to the purposes of a first book, it makes a transition too rapid from the fables of Esop to the obscure text of Tyrtæus. The Greek Reader, in the collection of sentences in the first part, arranged according to the rules of the Grammar, is designed to enable the learner to begin immediately to exercise himself, in putting to practice the principles and rules which he has learned in the grammar. To direct his attention, the word, in which the rule is exemplified in each sentence, is distinguished in the printing.-These sentences, forming the first course, are succeeded by a few fables and a choice of the best anecdotes and apophthegms contained in the Greek writers; which will not present undue difficulties to the learner well acquainted with the grammatical exercises that precede them.-The extracts in the department of natural history are from easy authors, and designed, in continuing the progress of the learner in the language, to afford him also amusing and instructive information.*****

A chief object of the editor, in preparing this work, has been to furnish an elementary book to our schools, in which the Greek may be learned through the medium of the English. No learner at school or elsewhere can be as well acquainted with the Latin as with his mother tongue. The practice of learning Greek through the medium of Latin, has descended to us from a time when the Latin was a common language among scholars, when lectures at the universities were exclusively given in that tongue, and commentaries on authors and lexicons published in no other. For schools, however, there is no one circumstance to recommend the continuance of this practice, not even that of becoming more familiar with the Latin.

This edition of Jacobs' Greek Reader is an adaptation to, our schools of a work of very great celebrity in Germany. Mr. Jacobs, its original compiler, is well known as one of the most profound and elegant of the German Hellenists; and in his station at the head of the High School at Gotha, he has been able to add, to the erudition of the critick, practical knowledge of the learner's needs.

Mr. Jacobs' work is one among many instances which might be quoted in Germany, in which the very first rate qualities and attainments of scholarship have been employed in the preparation of works of elementary instruction in the learned languages.

The great object and end of Jacobs, in preparing this work, was to make the learning of the Greek as easy as possible; that is, to remove all unnecessary difficulties. To acquire the vocabulary of a very copious language; to be possessed of the changes, which that language experienced in a period of more than two thousand years, during all which time it was a living tongue; to learn the peculiarities of its many different authors, styles, and dialects, is of course no very short nor easy task.

At a meeting of the Corporation of Harvard College" Voted," That this work be made use of in the examination of Candidates for admission into the University after the year 1826, instead of Græca Minora

HEDGE'S LOGICK.

ELEMENTS OF LOGICK; or a Summary of the general Principles and different modes of Reasoning. By LEVI HEDGE, A. M. Professsor of Logick and Metaphysicks, in Harvard College. Fourth edition. Price 87 cents.

Extracts from the Preface to the First edition.

Most of the treatises of Logick in common use have been formed on the model of the ancient systems, and are incumbered with many scholastick subtilties and unimportant distinctions. The instructions, which they furnish on the subject of ratiocination, consist of very little more, than a description of the syllogism, and a few general principles of demonstrative reasoning. They contain no elements nor rules to assist us in reasoning on subjects of probability, or on the ordinary events of human life. The manner, in which these books are written, is ill adapted to the comprehension of young minds. In explaining the operations of reasoning, many technical terms and arbitrary forms are employed, of which the tendency is rather to embarrass and per plex, than to instruct the learner.

The writer of this compend has pursued the following plan. After passing through the customary distinctions of terms and propositions, he has given a brief account of moral evidence, and pointed out the circumstances, which distinguish it from demonstrative. A concise view is then given of the different forms of reasoning, with the principles, on which they respectively proceed.

THE LATIN TUTOR,

Or an INTRODUCTION TO THE MAKING OF LATIN; containing a copious exempli, fication of the Rules of Latin Syntax, from the best authorities Price 874 cents. Undoubtedly the best book of the kind before the publick.